From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Van Dolson Subject: Re: Watching for changes to a CIFS directory Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:48:03 -0700 Message-ID: <20111015004803.GA16338@esri.com> References: <20111014234816.GA14503@esri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" To: Steve French Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-cifs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 05:25:50PM -0700, Steve French wrote: > inotify code would not be hard to finish - at one time before the vfs > api changed (to inotify from dnotify) cifs had experimental dnotify > code, but it does have the worker functions for this. I would be > very willing to look at patches for this ... Thanks Steve. If only I had the skills to create the patches! Appreciate the info. Ray >=20 > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Ray Van Dolson = wrote: > > I'd like to watch a CIFS mounted directory for changes (files being > > created in specific). > > > > Does the CIFS client have working support for either INOTIFY or > > DNOTIFY? =A0From perusing the mailing list, it seems that INOTIFY s= upport > > is not present, but there was discussion on implementing DNOTIFY > > support some time back[1]. =A0I'm not clear if that was ever partia= lly or > > fully implemented. > > > > My current test scripts are using DNOTIFY and are not working with = the > > CIFS client included in RHEL5, Fedora 13 or Fedora 14. > > > > Thanks, > > Ray > > > > [1] http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux-cifs-client/2009-January/0= 03946.html